Crime and networks /
edited by Carlo Morselli.
- xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Criminology and justice studies series .
- Criminology and justice studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The importance of studying co-offending networks for criminological theory and policy / Sex and age homophily in co-offending networks: opportunity or preference? / The evolution of a drug co-arrest network / Assessing the core membership of a youth gang from its co-offending network / The embedded and multiplex nature of Al Capone / Snakeheads and the cartwheel network: functional fluidity as opposed to structural flexibility / Illegal networks or criminal organizations: structure, power, and facilitators in cocaine trafficking structures / Dismantling criminal networks: can node attributes play a role? / Strategic positioning in Mafia networks / Drug trafficking networks in the world economy / Skills and trust: a tour inside the hard drives of computer hackers / Information exchange paths in IRC hacking chat rooms / Usenet newsgroups, child pornography, and the role of participants / Pushing the Ponzi: the rise and fall of a network fraud / Breakdown of brokerage: crisis and collapse in the Watergate conspiracy / Terrorist network adaptation to a changing environment / Understanding transnational crime in conflict-affected environments: the democratic republic of the Congo's illicit minerals trading network / Jean Marie McGloin and Holly Nguyen -- Sarah B. van Mastrigt and Peter J. Carrington -- Natalia Iwanski and Richard Frank -- Martin Bouchard and Richard Konarski -- Andrew V. Papachristos and Chris M. Smith -- Sheldon Zhang -- Andrea Gimenez-Salinas Framis -- David A. Bright, Catherine Greenhill, and Natalya Levenkova -- Francesco Calderoni -- Remi Boivin -- Benoit Dupont -- David Decary-Hetu -- Francis Fortin -- Aili Malm, Andrea Schoepfer, Gisela Bichler, and Neil Boyd -- Robert R. Faulkner and Eric Cheney -- Sean F. Everton and Dan Cunningham -- Georgia Lysaght. Part 1. Co-offending networks -- Part 2. Organized crime networks -- Part 3. Cybercrime networks -- Part 4. Economic crime networks -- Part 5. Extremist networks --